[vbox-dev] Difficulties with building VirtualBox 4.3.18 for Linux

[Klaus Espenlaub]

Markus,

On 15.11.2014 10:11, Markus Elfring wrote:
>>> 2.4 Is an out-of-source build approach supported?
>>
>> Of course.
>
> Is the output directory called "out" by default?
> Can it be achieved that this folder will not be stored within the source
> file hierarchy?

You can override the make variable PATH_OUT_BASE with whatever directory 
you want, if you want to keep the directory structure underneath 
(separating platforms etc.), or PATH_OUT if you want the build location 
to be completely custom.

The latter is used e.g. in the .rpm builds I already pointed to.

>> It seems that you're fighting the build system instead of using it.
>
> Another build try brought me a bit further.
> Should it also work with the setting "VBOX_JAVA_HOME:=/usr/lib64/jvm/java-1.7.0-openjdk-1.7.0"
> in the file "LocalConfig.kmk"?

We don't routinely test with openjdk, but it shouldn't be a stopper.

Regards,
Klaus

> How should I resolve the following error message?
>
> ...
> kmk: *** [/home/elfring/Projekte/VirtualBox/4.3.18/out/linux.amd64/release/obj/RuntimeR0Drv/r0drv/linux/alloc-r0drv-linux.o] Error 1
> The failing command:
> @gcc -c -O2 -nostdinc -iwithprefix include -include /lib/modules/3.8.13/build/include/linux/kconfig.h -Wall -Wextra -Wno-missing-field-initializers -Wno-unused -Wno-trigraphs -fdiagnostics-show-option -Wno-unused-parameter -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-pointer-sign -Wno-sign-compare -fdiagnostics-show-option -fno-stack-protector -O2 -mtune=generic -fno-omit-frame-pointer -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -Werror-implicit-function-declaration -include /home/elfring/Projekte/VirtualBox/4.3.18/include/VBox/SUPDrvMangling.h -m64 -mno-red-zone -mcmodel=kernel -mno-sse -mno-mmx -mno-sse2 -mno-3dnow -fno-reorder-blocks -ffreestanding -fno-asynchronous-unwind-tables -funit-at-a-time -Wno-sign-compare -Wdeclaration-after-statement -I/home/elfring/Projekte/VirtualBox/4.3.18/src/VBox/Runtime/r0drv/linux -I/home/elfring/Projekte/VirtualBox/4.3.18/src/VBox/Runtime -I/home/elfring/Projekte/VirtualBox/4.3.18/src/VBox/Runtime/include -I/lib/modules/3.8.13/build/include -I/lib/modules/3.8.13/bui!
 ld!
>   /include/a
> sm-i386/mach-default -I/lib/modules/3.8.13/build/include/asm-x86/mach-default -I/lib/modules/3.8.13/build/include/drm -I/lib/modules/3.8.13/build/arch/x86/include -I/lib/modules/3.8.13/build/arch/x86/include/asm/mach-default -I/lib/modules/3.8.13/build/arch/x86/include/uapi -I/lib/modules/3.8.13/build/arch/x86/include/generated -I/lib/modules/3.8.13/build/arch/x86/include/generated/uapi -I/lib/modules/3.8.13/build/include/uapi -I/lib/modules/3.8.13/build/include/generated/uapi -I/lib/modules/3.8.13/build/include -I/home/elfring/Projekte/VirtualBox/4.3.18/out/linux.amd64/release/obj/RuntimeR0Drv/dtrace -I/home/elfring/Projekte/VirtualBox/4.3.18/include -I/home/elfring/Projekte/VirtualBox/4.3.18/out/linux.amd64/release -DVBOX -DVBOX_OSE -DVBOX_WITH_64_BITS_GUESTS -DVBOX_WITH_DEBUGGER -DRT_OS_LINUX -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -DRT_ARCH_AMD64 -D__AMD64__ -DVBOX_WITH_HARDENING -DRTPATH_APP_PRIVATE=\"/usr/local/share/virtualbox\" -DRTPATH_APP_PRIVATE_ARCH=\"/usr/local/lib/virtualbox\!
 " !
>   -DRTPATH_S
> HARED_LIBS=\"/usr/local/lib/virtualbox\" -DRTPATH_APP_DOCS=\"/usr/local/share/doc/virtualbox\" -DIN_RING0 -DIN_RT_R0 -DHC_ARCH_BITS=64 -DGC_ARCH_BITS=64 -D__KERNEL__ -DMODULE -DIN_RT_R0 -DRT_WITH_VBOX -DRT_WITHOUT_NOCRT_WRAPPERS -DRT_NO_EXPORT_SYMBOL -DMODULE -DKBUILD_MODNAME=KBUILD_STR\(vboxdrv\) -DKBUILD_BASENAME=KBUILD_STR\(vboxdrv\) -DIN_SUP_R0 -Wp,-MD,/home/elfring/Projekte/VirtualBox/4.3.18/out/linux.amd64/release/obj/RuntimeR0Drv/r0drv/linux/alloc-r0drv-linux.o.dep -Wp,-MT,/home/elfring/Projekte/VirtualBox/4.3.18/out/linux.amd64/release/obj/RuntimeR0Drv/r0drv/linux/alloc-r0drv-linux.o -Wp,-MP -o /home/elfring/Projekte/VirtualBox/4.3.18/out/linux.amd64/release/obj/RuntimeR0Drv/r0drv/linux/alloc-r0drv-linux.o /home/elfring/Projekte/VirtualBox/4.3.18/src/VBox/Runtime/r0drv/linux/alloc-r0drv-linux.c
> In file included from /lib/modules/3.8.13/build/include/linux/cred.h:17:0,
>                   from /lib/modules/3.8.13/build/include/linux/sched.h:56,
>                   from /home/elfring/Projekte/VirtualBox/4.3.18/src/VBox/Runtime/r0drv/linux/the-linux-kernel.h:92,
>                   from /home/elfring/Projekte/VirtualBox/4.3.18/src/VBox/Runtime/r0drv/linux/assert-r0drv-linux.c:31:
> /lib/modules/3.8.13/build/include/linux/key.h: At top level:
> /lib/modules/3.8.13/build/include/linux/key.h:210:22: error: field 'keys' has incomplete type
>     struct assoc_array keys;
>                        ^
> ...
>
> Regards,
> Markus
>